MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 163, 31 July 1886, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.

Patti appeared in a concert on Wednes-' day, June 22nd, at the Albert Hall, London, for the first time since her' Carriage.' She wa9 warmly received. ' In tti'e evening she sang at the royal concert in Buckingham Palace. V !

1 e -°* Pasteur's patients, innoculatedjbr raOfes; died on the 24th -an 11-year-old girlirom Dole, in the Department of Jura. The American Grants have refused,, it Is said, to give Lord Cairns the hand of thofc daughter Adele. The engagement is broken off. , „ v In the case of Cyrus W. Field v. Labou.-. ohere, of the London "Truth," for libel,' called on the 28th,the Attorney-General, on behalf of the.defendant, withdrew the plea of justification, and expressed regret for publishing the article. He also stated that he and Sir Henry James, Field's counsel, had agreed upon the amount to be paid by Labouchere in satisfaction of the coßta, and asked the judge to discharge the jury. Field refuses all compromise. The question of publishing the mail route, to the East, via Vancouver, British Columbia, was debated in the Lords on June 22nd. \ The noted spiritist, Daniel Douglas Home, died in London on June 22nd, aged 53. A London despatch Bays the yacht Galatea sailed for New York from that port Jan* 25th. Captain Serville, Secretary of the Yacht Club, is reported as saying: — "I am not very hopeful of the Galatea's chances in America (to win the International Cup), and would rather see the Irex go to New York in her stead. The Galatea will not compare in any respect with the Irex, and the latter's skipper is the best amateur yachtsman in England. More than fhis, her racing record is the very beat afloat. The) Galatea has undergone many alterations, and is muoh faster than she* was last summer, but I still doubt her ability-' to beat the Yankee yachts, owing to the difference in measurement." ' , Over twenty-five persons were drowned by the capsizing of a ferry-boat while crossing the Moldan River, Bohemia. Twenty-four men were killed and sixteen. entombed alive, June 25th, by an explosion in a colliery at Rochelle, France. Despatch from Paris, June 24th, saye a group of Parisian financiers have ndvanced 25,000,000 francs to the Panama Canal Company.